Chapter 6: The Politics of Being Fair: Organizational Politics and Procedural Justice in the United States, Australia, and the Middle East

Samples from the U.S., Australia, and Middle East were employed to examine the relationships among perceptions of organizational politics, procedural justice and job satisfaction in these three cultures. This research indicates that organizational politics and organizational justice each explain significant variance in job satisfaction for managers in the U.S., Australia, and the Middle East. In the U.S. and Australia, organizational justice partially buffered the effects of organizational politics on job satisfaction. In the Middle East organizational justice fully mediated the relationship between perceptions of organizational politics and job satisfaction. Implications for future research are discussed.